Orthodox Calendar

Korobeinikov-Kazan Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (movable holiday on the Saturday after to June 18th ).All venerable and holy Fathers of the Holy Mount Athos (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of Pentecost).All venerable and holy Fathers of Bulgaria (movable holiday on the 2nd Sunday of Pentecost)."Kaluga" Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos (1771) (movable holiday on the first Sunday of the Apostles' Fast).Hieromartyr Methodius, bishop of Patara (312).Holy Prince Gleb Andreyevich of Vladimir (1175).St. Minas, bishop of Polotsk (1116).Translation of the relics of St. Gurias, archbishop of Kazan (1630).Martyrs Inna, Pinna, and Rimma, disciples of Apostle Andrew in Scythia (1st-2nd c.).Martyrs Aristocleus presbyter, Demetrian deacon, and Athanasius reader, of Cyprus (306).St. Leucius the Confessor, bishop of Brindisi (5th c.).St. Nicholas (Cabasilas) (1397).Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Modensk-Kosninsk".St. Nahum of Ochrid (910) (Bulgaria).St. Callistus I, patriarch of Constantinople (Mt. Athos) (1363).Translation of the relics and garments (ca. 960) of the Apostles Luke, Andrew, and Thomas, the Prophet Elisha, and Martyr Lazarus to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople (Greek). Martyrs Paul, Cyriacus, Paula, Felicilana, Thomas, Felix, Martyrius, Vitaly, Crispinus, and Emilius in Tomi (290).Blessed Studios, founder of the Studion Monastery (5th c.).Finding of the relics (1959) of New Martyr Hieromonk Raphael of Lesbos (1463).The Scripture Readings

All venerable and holy Fathers of the Holy Mount Athos, Troparion, in Tone I 
In hymns let us honor the fathers of the wilderness of Athos, the angels in
the flesh, the confessors and the venerable, holy hierarchs and martyrs; and,
emulating their virtues, let us cry aloud, saying: Glory to Him who hath
glorified you! Glory to Him Who hath crowned you! Glory to Him Who hath shown
you to be our intercessors amid tribulations!

Kontakion, in Tone IV, "O Thou Who wast of Thine own will lifted up on the
Cross..." 
Come ye, let us all praise the fathers who have made Mount Athos a heaven,
who have shown forth therein an angelic life, and have assembled a multitude of
monks; and let us cry out unto them: deliver us from every misfor­tune and
temptation, O ye multitude of the venerable, boast of Athos.

All Russian Saints, Troparion, in Tone VIII 
The land of Russia doth offer Thee, O Lord, all the saints who have shone
forth in it, as the beauteous fruit of Thy salvific splendor. By their
supplications and through the Theotokos preserve Thou the Church and our land in
profound peace, O most Merciful One.

Kontakion, in Tone III, "Today the Virgin... " 

Today the choir of the saints who have pleased God in our land standeth forth
in the Church and invisibly prayeth to God for us. With them the angels give
glory, and all the saints of the Church of Christ celebrate with them; for all
together they entreat the pre-eternal God for us.

Troparion of the Sunday, Tone I 
When the stone had been sealed by the Jews; / while the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure
Body; / Thou didst rise on the third day, O Savior, / granting life to the world. / The powers of
heaven therefore cried to Thee, O Giver of Life: / Glory to Thy Resurrection, O Christ! / Glory to
Thy Kingdom! / Glory to Thy dispensation, O Thou Who lovest mankind.

Hymn to the Theotokos, Tone I 
When Gabriel announced to Thee, O Virgin, Rejoice! / with that word the Master of all was
incarnate in Thee, O Holy Ark. / As the righteous David said, / Thy womb became more spacious
than the heavens, bearing Thy Creator. / Glory to Him Who took abode in Thee! / Glory to Him
Who came from Thee! / Glory to Him Who freed us by being born of Thee!

Kontakion of the Sunday, Tone I 
As God, Thou didst rise from the tomb in glory, / raising the world with Thyself. / Human
nature praises Thee as God, for death has vanished! / Adam exults, O Master! / Eve rejoices,
for she is freed from bondage, and cries to Thee: / Thou art the Giver of Resurrection to all,
O Christ!

Hieromartyr Methodius, Bishop of Patara, Troparion, Tone II 
Thy blood mystically crieth out from the earth, like that of Abel,/ O
divinely wise and holy hierarch Methodius,/ who manifestly preached that God
became man./ Wherefore, thou hast put the deception of Origen to shame/ and hast
passed over to the heavenly bridal chamber.// Entreat Christ God, that He save
our souls.

Kontakion, Tone IV, "Having been lifted up..." 
Thou wast a priest of the mysteries of the Holy Trinity,/ a proclaimer of the
commandments of God which pass all understanding,/ and the confirmation of the
Orthodox,/ O Methodius;/ thou didst denounce the thoughts of the heretics for
the sake of Orthodoxy,/ shown by thy blood to be a hieromartyr.// Standing
before Christ with the angels, entreat Him that we be saved.

 vigil for great feasts; a more festive service where all of the unfixed hymns are dedicated to the feast.  "vigil" to a certain saint when All Night vigil is celebrated. The order of the service is similar to a Polyeleos (magnification) service, in that small vespers, great vespers and matins are combined (from this comes the vigil) and that there is the blessing of breads and the anointing with oil at the end of matins.  "cross", "Polyeleos", "with the Polyeleos", "Polyeleos service", that is the type of service during which the "Polyeleos" (Praise/Magnification) is sung during matins (the majestic singing of the 134 and 135 psalms with verses); in addition, during this service there is a reading from the Gospel, the prokeimenon, gradual antiphons, the canon with 8 troparions, the praises and Great Doxology are sung, and during vespers "Blessed is the man" is sung (first "Glory" of the 1st kathisma), there is an entrance, Old Testament readings (parameia) and during lityia all of the verses may be sung to the saint.  "doxology", "with doxology" during this service to the saint it is proper to sing the Great Doxology at the end of matins (in services of a lower rank, the doxology is read), also at this service are sung several Sunday Theotokions, sedalions after the kathisma (psaltery reading) to the saint, the katavasia during the canon, also at the end of matins are sung the praise verses, the Great Doxology, and the entire ending of matins follows the order of a feast.  "six verse", "up to six"; all six stikhera of "Lord, I cry" are sung to the saint, there is a stikhera for "Glory" of the Apotischa for both vespers and matins; troparion to the saint, and the canon of matins is sung to the saint in six troparions., , no sign  "without a sign"; the most ordinary, daily service to a saint, to whom it is customary to sing only three stikhera at "Lord I cry" and the canon of matins in four troparions. There may not be a troparion to the saint.